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[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Elizabeth M Smith
<emsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was referring to the fact that by default the data directory for mysql
> installs is in the application directory
> So if you didn't "upgrade" but instead installed both side by side, it would
> have a new blank data directory
> And the user, thinking they've simply upgraded and not done a new install
> would be utterly confused.
> Just making sure that even if our "upgrades" are side by side that we have a
> way to migrate user settings and data for applications.

Wasn't it changed to some stupid location like All Users some time ago?
The data dir is specified by the conf file and I'm sure our intend is
to not lose the conf file. ;)

Olaf